Yake Elementary
Woodhaven-Brownstown

1. Hardware: Mid Tech
2. Connectivity: Low Tech
3. Content: Low Tech
4. Professional Development: Low Tech
5. Integration and Use: Low Tech

Based on an average of your responses, your school is at the Mid Tech level.


Mid Tech Educational Benefits:

  • Improve higher-order critical thinking with access to multimedia content
  • Master basic skills through drill and tutorial software
  • Greater information resources available for research and education from Internet and CD-ROM
  • Most students/teachers able to communicate with parents, experts, other students and teachers outside the school

Summary of your answers:

Questions:

Your answers:

1

How many students per instructional computer?

(d) 1 student per instructional computer connected to the Internet

2

How long does it take to receive technical support?

(a) Takes several days

3

What percent of instructional rooms and administrative offices connected to the Internet?

(b) 50% or more

4

What is the quality of your school's connection to the Internet?

(b) Direct connectivity on campus and in some classrooms

5

What is the use and availability of other forms of hardware technology?

(b) VCRs, cable TV, telephones, voicemail, projection devices, digital cameras, calculators

6

What forms do delivery and format of professional development take?

(a) Trainer-led instruction

7

What percent of the technology budget is allocated to professional development?

(a) Less than 10%

8

What is the understanding and use of digital content by educators?

(a) *100% at entry or adoption phase *A few use for lesson planning

13

What is the content budget allocation to purchase digital content?

(a) Use some supplemental instructional materials funds only

9

Software format:

(b) Receive information from CD-ROM and searchable, online content

10

What is the role of the role of educator and degree to which digital content is integrated into instruction?

(a) * Teacher centered *Supplement instruction with digital content

11

Do the students employ digital content to enhance learning?

(b) Use for research, communications and presentations

12

What percentage of students are using digital content and what is their frequency of use?

(a) *50% or more *Weekly

14

How does technology help student achievement and 21st century skills?

(a) Demonstrate improved basic skills

15

What percent of your school or district aligns standards, curriculum, assessment and/or uses technology for continuous improvement?

(a) 25% align standards, curriculum and assessment using technology

16

What percent of your school or district integrates digital strategies into assessment and/or measures 21st century skills?

(a) *25% or more beginning to integrate digital strategies into assessment *Limited to use of fixed answer format

17

What percent of students has continuous access to technology?

(a) *Some students have access to technology to reinforce basic skills

18

How is research used?

(b) *50% review external research and apply appropriately *50% conduct internal research on program effectiveness *50% of schools use IT for planning *25% of teachers use IT in classrooms for ad hoc action

19

How do administrators use technology?

(b) *Use technology to collect data and communicate with constituents *Initiate some data driven decision making

20

How do parents and the community use technology?

(c) *Communicate two-way via email, and privacy protected web tools, e.g., to access some school information and resources from home

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